Chapter 164 Rolf and Luna

"Luna, are you sure we can find Scimitar and Bubblesnot in the Forbidden Forest?"

In the silent night, two small figures appeared in the Forbidden Forest.

The shallow moonlight shines into the forbidden forest through the trees, and the trees of different heights cast jagged and mottled black shadows, as if they were ghosts.

The pine wood covered with a layer of white snow was swaying, and occasionally a few scattered snowflakes fell, falling on the messy and dirty blond hair.

"Maybe we'll find it?" Luna grabbed some crumbs of snow from her hair and watched with a dazed expression as it gradually melted into the palm of her hand.

Luofu looked helplessly at this crazy little witch and hesitated to speak.

"I still can't believe it. Do magical animals like the Scimitar, Bubblesnot, and Hook really exist?" he asked. "I don't understand how my grandfather can be considered an authority on magical animals." , but he has been searching all his life and has not found any trace of the existence of these magical animals you mentioned."

As classmates in Potions class, Rolf and Luna quickly became good friends.

Rolf was pleasantly surprised to find that Luna, like him, was very interested in magical animals and often talked about those cute little guys.

What surprised him even more was that Luna confidently admitted that she knew many kinds of rare magical animals that were not recorded in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", such as scimitar beasts, bubble snot monsters, hooks, and mole flies. …

So after a month of getting thoroughly familiar with Hogwarts Castle and its surrounding environment, Rolf specially invited Luna to go on a night tour of the Forbidden Forest with him to look for traces of new creatures.

Luna glanced at Rolf in surprise, as if she couldn't believe that her friend would be suspicious of these magical animals.

"Of course it's true. My father once got the horn of a curved-horned beast." She said with a serious face, "I always carry that horn with me..."

"What? There is such important evidence?!" Luo Fu became excited instantly and couldn't wait to get to Luna's side, "Take it out and take a look!"

With a calm expression, Luna was tugging at the inside of her robe decorated with silver sequins. Strings of chains made of metal bottle caps were dangling inside the clothes, making crisp sounds.

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"found it."

She didn't know which chain she found on it, but she found a big thing that looked like a rhinoceros horn. She lifted it up and brought it to Rolf's eyes.

"Look." Luna said in an erratic tone.

Rolf excitedly looked at the big animal horn in Luna's hand, feeling particularly excited.

He felt that as long as he could help Luna prove the existence of the Scimitar-Horned Beast, he would be recognized by his grandfather as the youngest magical zoologist in the magical world!

However, the next moment, Luofu's hopeful eyes extinguished.

"Luna, are you telling me that this is the horn of a curved-horned beast?" His face was a little stiff, and he seemed to have the urge to curse, but he didn't have the heart to curse in front of Luna.

"Yeah!" Luna nodded gently, with a calm look on her face.

"But it's actually the horn of the Poison Horned Beast..." Luo Fu covered his face helplessly, thinking that his dream of becoming a magizoologist might not come true for a while.

"Luna, were you deceived by your father?" he asked.

"I can feel that this is the horn of the Scimitar-Horned Beast." Luna held the big animal horn in both hands and said firmly, "The Scimitar-Horned Beast will definitely help us in our operation tonight."

Rolf was desperate.

He always felt that based on how unreliable Luna was when she talked about the so-called "curved-horned beast", it was very possible that other magical animals that were not discovered by Newt were either made up by her or her father. Lied to her...

"I knew... my grandfather had been busy all his life and could not have missed so many magical animals." Luo Fu said helplessly, "Forget it, anyway, I came to the Forbidden Forest this time not just to find those magical animals. "

"The food for the little curled-winged demon hasn't arrived these days... I can't steal the lambs raised by Hagrid anymore. He seems to have discovered that the sheep are missing. Today I saw him reinforcing the fence around the sheep. "

Listening to Rolf's suspicion, Luna seemed to be used to it and didn't care at all. She was still holding the curved-horned beast, or poisonous-horned horn, in both hands, and her eyes were wandering around the Forbidden Forest.

"Rolf, have you stolen ten sheep this month? Did Hagrid not find out until now?" she asked curiously.

"Ahem, Hagrid is a little careless and has never counted the number of sheep." Rolf said with some embarrassment, "It means I have stolen too much recently, and something didn't look right at first glance, which aroused suspicion."

"Let me tell you..." Luna looked thoughtfully at the ground covered with snowflakes, "Mutton often appears when eating in the auditorium recently."

After hearing this meaningless sentence, Luofu's expression became even more embarrassed.

This magical animal, the crouching demon, usually feeds on the brains of animals. Untamed crowing demons even prefer to eat human brains.

In order to prevent the curling-winged demon from being too hungry and preventing his head from being eaten first, Luofu must feed the curling-winged demon he carries with him on time.

So he set his sights on the small livestock farm enclosed by Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, on the edge of the Forbidden Forest...

Every few days, Rolf would go to Hagrid's sheepfold to steal a sheep and feed the sheep's brains to the crouching demon.

As for the remaining mutton, they would take advantage of the convenient location of the Hufflepuff common room and sneak it into the Hogwarts kitchen when no one was around. The mutton would be handed over to the house elves working in the kitchen for processing. .

Although Luna looked crazy, she had unknowingly seen clearly and guessed that the recent changes in the auditorium's recipes must have been caused by Rolf.

At this moment, the curled-wing demon curled up into a large green cocoon in Luofu's pocket moved.

"Don't worry, little guy, I promise you will find some other delicious food today." Luofu quickly patted his bulging pocket to calm the curled-winged demon.

Then, he looked at Luna and smiled helplessly, "The Winged Demon is hungry."

"Furthermore, this little guy is also picky about food. He has eaten sheep brains too many times during this period. He has long been dissatisfied and was protesting to me a few days ago," said Luo Fe.

Luna tilted her head and glanced at Rolf's bulging pocket. An earring that looked like an orange carrot, but was actually called an Airship Lee, was dangling under her earlobe.

"Then what are you waiting for?" He didn't see her turn her head right, so she tilted her head and said to Luofu, "Hurry up and find food for the curling-winged demon!"

With that said, she skipped towards the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

Luofu looked at Luna's back as she left, but didn't react for a moment. He was stunned for a while before following her.

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Luo Fu and Luna were very lucky. It didn't take long before they discovered a fat wild boar.

Luofu made a decisive decision and threw the Winged Demon out.

The curled-winged demon immediately changed from the form of a cocoon, spread its wings to look like a large blue-green butterfly, and neatly wrapped the wild boar's head with its two spiny wings.

"The next scene will be a bit bloody. Why don't you look elsewhere first?" Luof thought about the hunting method of the Winged Demon and looked at Luna next to him with some worry.

He felt that such a simple little witch would not be able to accept such a bloody and brutal hunting scene.

However, Luna shook her head gently and looked at the scene in front of her calmly——

The wild boar's head was wrapped and its eyes were blindfolded. It felt the severe pain from its head and began to struggle violently.

It was blindfolded by the Winged Demon's wings. It was pitch black in front of its eyes and could not see the direction. It could only run aimlessly, wailing, and shaking its head like crazy, trying to get rid of the Curled Winged Demon on its head. Throw it off.

However, the small body of the Winged Demon was extremely powerful, tightly imprisoning the wild boar's head, never giving it any chance to break free.

As time passed, the wild boar's struggle gradually became weaker.

In the end, its fat body fell heavily on the snow, splashing into flying snowflakes...

After eating and drinking, the curled-winged demon retracted its wings, flew up from the wild boar's head, and landed on Luo Fu's palm again, transforming back into a cocoon-like form.

The head of the wild boar on the ground was dripping with blood, and there seemed to be a big hole in the back of the head. The skin on the brain was shriveled, and there was nothing left in the big hole, only a piece of blood that was still flowing.

"Are you okay, Luna?" Rolf looked at this bloody scene and quickly looked at Luna beside him, wanting to comfort her young heart.

However, he unexpectedly found that Luna didn't have a trace of fear on her face, but she was slightly dazed and her eyes were misty.

"What's wrong with you, Luna?" Rolf asked worriedly. He felt that this performance was beyond his understanding.

"It's okay, I have friends here." Luna shook her head and looked at some pine trees near the wild boar.

Luofu also moved his gaze, but saw nothing.

"Oh no, Luna must have been frightened by this bloody scene, right?" He was taken aback and quickly reached out his hand and shook it in front of Luna's eyes, "Luna...Luna...do you still recognize me?" ?”

"I'm really fine, Luo Fe." Luna looked at Luo Fei's performance and smiled happily, "It's true that a few friends are here."

Rolf doubtfully moved his gaze to where Luna was looking, but still found nothing. He only saw the unchanging pine trees and snow in the distance.

'Sure enough, Luna's brain was frightened. ’ He made a secret judgment.

Just when Luofu wanted to turn around and forcefully take Luna to the school infirmary to see a doctor, an accident suddenly happened——

A footprint like a horse's hoof suddenly fell on the snow-covered ground. It was very abrupt and very clear. In the blink of an eye, it connected from a single footprint to one.

The number of footprints in this area is increasing, but there is still nothing in front of me, as if the footprints appear out of thin air.

The footprints extended far away, from behind a tall tree to the headless wild boar before stopping.

Immediately, there was a frightening sight of wild boar being torn apart easily, and pieces disappearing into the air...

"Horse hoof-shaped footprints, invisible body, carnivorous habits..." Luofu looked at the incomprehensible scene in front of him and murmured, "So there are Thestrals in the Forbidden Forest?!" He looked at Luna.

Luna nodded happily.

"It was Hagrid who adopted a little Thestral a few decades ago, and then gradually raised it into such a large group now." She explained, "The carriages at Hogwarts during the school holidays are all pulled by Thestrals."

With that said, Luna walked forward and spoke happily to the air.

"Is this what Hogwarts carriages look like?" Rolf said blankly.

He could be said to have smuggled himself into Hogwarts with a portkey. He had never ridden or even seen a Hogwarts carriage, so he had no idea what Luna was talking about.

Wait, the point seems not to be here...

The point is, Luna actually started chatting with the Thestrals that Rolf couldn't see, and she seemed to be very familiar with them.

Watching Luna's conversation with Yeqi, a particularly complicated look appeared in Luof's eyes.

After all, it was Rolf who was determined to become a future magizoologist. Even though he had never seen it with his own eyes, he clearly knew one of the Thestrals' characteristics——

Only those who have truly witnessed death can see the Thestral!

In other words, Luna is just a freshman in Hogwarts and has actually witnessed death?

Luofu hesitated for a long time, feeling that he suddenly suffered from his grandfather's unique symptom of being unable to speak, and he didn't know what to say.

"Bang", "chi", "呲"...

At this moment, a strange noise in the distance suddenly caught the attention of Rolf and Luna.

Luo Fe just didn't know what to say to comfort Luna, so he quickly changed the subject.

"It seems that someone is using magic deep in the Forbidden Forest." He walked to Luna and whispered to her.

Luna glanced over there with wandering eyes.

"Yiqi told me... there is great danger in that direction." She said. The voice seemed more erratic than the eyes.

"Can you talk to Ye Qi?" Luofu looked at Luna in shock.

"I can't understand what the Thestrals are saying." Luna shook her head and said vaguely, "But it's easy to understand what they are thinking in their eyes..."

The corners of Luofu's mouth twitched, feeling that what Luna said was a bit unreliable.

He could understand what animals were thinking through their eyes... He felt that even his grandfather could not do such a magical thing.

"Harassment." Luna said suddenly.

"What?" Luo Fu was stunned for a moment.

"You've got bugs in your head," Luna said. "I can see a bunch of bugs flying around in your head."

Now Rolf didn't believe the new magical animals Luna was talking about, and just shrugged casually.

"So how do I get rid of them?" he responded.

Luna reached out and tugged on Rolf's sleeve and handed him something like a rhinoceros horn.

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